A Quality Character: The New Lomography Mystery Product Part 5

The wait for our mystery product is almost over! Here is one last clue before the big reveal tomorrow, April 10th!

What could this be?

Over the past week, we have been releasing little clues about our exciting new Lomography product. Confused and anxious, or all knowing?! Whichever way, the wait is aaaalmost over – our new product will be revealed tomorrow on April 10th!

So let’s have a run through of the clues you have been given so far. This product is a new and special character to Lomography, with links to Russia in 1958, it has a likeness to the inner-workings of a goat’s eyesight and some big mates in the world of photography. Who the hell is this character??? Well, we will be revealing all tomorrow! Please take note of the launch time in your region:

Obviously it won't fit on a reflex camera. So it has to come with a viewfinder. It has to be wide angle but not a tilt/shift lens. A regular fisheye would just be too easy. I'm still sticking with the anamorphic lens prediction.

@scootiepye Me too... I'm hoping for M42 or T-mount Petzval, maybe with real diaphragm... I think Waterhouse stops are bogus, even in 1870! However, that silhouette looks like a very short focus, extreme wide angle lens, so, how about a M39 fish eye?? The only other guess is Mir 1 37mm f/2.8 copy in M39 with back focus shortened to fit FED/Zorki/Leica and adapt to mirrorless. Mir 1 was from 1958, but it was M42 and Zenit M39 SLR mounts...

@scootiepye The bad thing about current Petzval is that Nikon and Canon mounts have too long back focus and too large diameter to be adapted to anything else. I think Petzval should have been a T-mount with adapters for everything in the world. The decision makers in LSI are just too young, sometimes...

based on that silhouette, a short focused lens... with a very wide angle... well, the 'wide angle' is the main keyword here.
goat can see up to 300 degree angle...then, something similar to (oh sorry, wider than) the fish eye lens..

WTF! €600 for this fucking lens! Lomography has gone totally insane! I prefered the old times of still expensive but at the end affordable plastic stuff!!! Lomography, just for really cool and snob hipsters!

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It's time for our 2nd mystery product clue! To lead you closer to our quality character, today here are 5 important events that happened in Russia during the year 1958 ...but what connection do they have to our new friend?

That’s right, folks, Lomography is once again coming up with a new exciting product. And as always, we’re letting you in on the secret little by little by dishing out some clues. Head past the jump for the first clue and guess away!

For the last year we've been working on the next version of Lomography. We based our work on the feedback you’ve given us over the years and we wanted to share it as early as possible with you and can’t wait to hear what you think. Just one warning first: it is still in development and things can break. All the photos, comments, likes, homes and everything else were transferred as of October 16th, 2014. So anything you do on next.lomography.com won't be reflected on www.lomography.com and vice versa. Once we are done with testing, everything you did here will be deleted again. So this is a big playground for you to explore.

The new mystery Lomography product will materialize into reality on Monday October 20th! Until then, we just have one final colorful clue to tease you with. What do these transforming colors have to do with the new product do you think? We won’t spoil the surprise but, as always, would relish reading your funny and fantastical thoughts!

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